In chess, a sacrifice is a move that gives up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could...

In chess, the exchange is the material difference of a rook for a minor piece (i.e. a bishop or knight). Having a rook for a minor piece is generally...

loss in return for a greater power gain, such as in a game of chess. Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion. It is...

Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's...

In chess, the Greek gift sacrifice, also known as the classical bishop sacrifice, is a typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+ or Black playing...

In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move that sacrifices a queen, the most powerful piece, in return for some compensation, such as a tactical or positional...

a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...

Fine in The World's Great Chess Games describes it as the first great immortal game of chess. Alexander McDonnell sacrifices his queen for two minor pieces...

Sacrifice play may refer to: Sacrifice fly, in baseball Bunt (baseball), in baseball Sacrifice (chess), in chess Coup (bridge), a play in the card game...

appreciated as an example of the romantic school of chess, a style of play which prized bold attacks and sacrifices over deep strategy. The game—especially its...

bridge Sacrifice (chess), a chess tactic Sacrifice (video game), a 2000 3D real-time strategy game The Sacrifice, a 1956 novel by Adele Wiseman Sacrifice, a...

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...

On Chess.com, this kind of move is marked as an "inaccuracy", denoting a weak move, appearing more regularly than with most annotators. A sacrifice leading...

The Queen's Gambit is the chess opening that starts with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 It is one of the oldest openings and is still commonly played today...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered...

middlegame, the sacrifice of a decoy piece is called a diversionary sacrifice. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Honfi vs...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

"winning a queen", "losing a rook", or "sacrificing a pawn". The rules of chess prescribe the moves each type of chess piece can make. During play, the players...

Spielman, Rudolph The Art of Sacrifice in Chess Dover Chess 2011 ISBN 0-486-28449-2 Landsberger, Kurt William Steinitz, Chess Champion McFarland & Company...

Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 Black sacrifices a pawn for...

11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the...

Tranquill Intercepts BlitzChampsII Victory with a Dramatic Queen Sacrifice". Chess.com. Retrieved June 24, 2023. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

The Game of the Century is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial...

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5...

In chess, a combination is a sequence of moves, often initiated by a sacrifice, which leaves the opponent few options and results in tangible gain. At...

(9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely...

In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a material threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or...

after an Italian dish), is a chess opening. This opening is a variation of the Two Knights Defense in which White sacrifices a knight for an attack on Black's...

The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...

tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices material with the aim of achieving a subsequent positional...